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On a rainy afternoon, Mina lined up her wooden blocks. She placed her blue marble at the starting line. Today, she meant to make it all the way to the pillow.
The Marble That Rolled Under the Bed on PurposeA runaway marble leads a child to forgotten worries under the bed, where each worry becomes smaller in the lamplight.
1. On a rainy afternoon, Mina lined up her wooden blocks. She placed her blue marble at the starting line. Today, she meant to make it all the way to the pillow.
2. Mina gave the marble one careful tap. It slipped past the blocks, crossed the rug, and stopped beneath the bed. Mina reached for it, but the marble sat just beyond her fingers.
3. Mina looked beneath the bed. The marble was there beside a gray knot, a blue pebble, and a folded paper thought. She did not remember putting any of them there.
4. Mina carried the bedside lamp closer and turned it on. The gray knot looked like the worry about tomorrow's spelling. The blue pebble felt like the worry about thunder.
5. Mina held the gray knot in the lamplight. It loosened and loosened until it was no bigger than a thread. The spelling worry had forgotten how to be big.
6. Next, Mina placed the blue pebble in the light. It shrank to the size of a bean. The folded thought shrank to the size of a button, and Mina remembered the friend who had waved after all.
7. At last, Mina picked up the blue marble. The three worries were small enough to fit in her palm. Under the bed, there was only one sock, and it looked completely innocent.
8. Mina put the tiny worries in a little wooden box. Then she set the marble on the rug again. It had rolled under the bed on purpose, where forgotten worries became small in the lamplight.
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